Tue - January 1, 2008

State Supreme Court Deals Double Whammy to Developers


  California’s Top Court Supports Lincoln Place Tenants, Playa Vista Environmentalists

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When Jack Kerouac Came to Venice


  By John Thomas
Jack I didn’t know.  Never met him.  Only saw him once -- not much more than a glimpse, then.  And he surely wasn’t at his best that night.

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Letters


•  5 Rose Avenue Apartments - Shirley M. Anderson
• Beach Access for All - C.V. Beck

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It’s 2008 – Run for Your Lives!


  By Jim Smith
The new year, 2008, is likely to be a fateful one for all humanity. It may well be the last chance we have to affect climate change without waiting for thousands of years to see the results. Good luck to us all with George Bush and gang running the country. Sad to say, but big business and the military seem to be firmly in control of the Congress as well. Setting things right with the climate will involve stepping on some very big toes, the auto industry, the coal industry, the oil industry, the military-industrial complex and many more.

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Lakota Nation Declares Independence. Can Venice Be Far Behind?


 By Erica Snowlake
Haumikole! Hello my friend!

 On December 19, the Lakota Freedom Delegation announced unilateral withdrawl from all U.S. treaties to a small group of Press and well-wishers in the Plymouth Congregational Church in Washington, DC. The same church hosted the American Indian Movement in the1970s.

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Swami Speaks


 By X Swami X,

People who don’t know how to listen should be restrained from writing books.  People who don’t know how to listen should be restrained, and...made to watch television.

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Impeaching the Vice President – A Congressional View


  By Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

On November 7, the House of Representatives voted to send a resolution of impeachment of Vice President Cheney to the Judiciary Committee. As Members of the House Judiciary Committee, we strongly believe these important hearings should begin.

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Impeachment Resolution from Rep. Dennis Kucinich


 Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

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Beachhead Readings bring back the Venice West


  A packed house at Sponto Gallery (aka: Venice West Coffee House), Dec. 15, turned out to support the Beachhead and hear readings by Collective and former Collective members.

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Interview with Venice Poet Frank Rios - Part 1


 By Hillary Kaye
Beachhead:  I’m nervous.

Frank T. Frank T. Rios: Of  course you are, you care.

Beachhead: Thank you for saying that Frankie. O.K. This is the Frank T. Rios interview. I’m in his home. Thank you Frankie for doing this interview.

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Here Come the Venice Paparazzi!


  By Karl Abrams
Whether it’s a local red carpet event with cameras flashing or a Venetian bohemian reading poetry on the beach, the photographers of the Venice Paparazzi will probably be there, enthusiastically snapping spontaneous photos that are, if you have no objections, blended together into a beautifully crafted internet web site (venicepaparazzi.com) for all to see. Here you will have your instant place in Venice history and even--if you want-- a new sense of feeling like a celebrity.

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Venetians in the Street


 This month’s question: 
What are your hopes and dreams for the Boardwalk in 2008?

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Martin Luther King in his own words


  “Man has the capacity to do right as well as wrong, and his history is a path upward, not downward. The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man’s blunders but to his capacity to overcome them … 

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The Martin Luther King Kingdom Day Parade


 has been celebrated for the last 20 years and over a million people take to the streets of Los Angeles to remember the life and works of the great man.

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California Presidential Primary is Feb. 5


  Here is the list of candidates who will appear on the ballot:

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Ocean Front Walk Ordinance Still Being Debated


 There is no ordinance regulating the west side of Ocean Front Walk. The old ordinance was thrown out by the Los Angeles City Council as the result of a lawsuit brought by ACLU Attorney Carol Sobel on behalf of Venice vendors and activists, including Food not Bombs.

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And Still They Come - Poems for Philomene Long


• My Dear Lady Nite – S.A. Griffin
• poem for philomene long - John Dorsey

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The Venice Beat Poets – The Great River Outside the Mainstream - Frank T. Rios


 By Hillary Kaye
Frank T. Rios is a man who lives consciously in a world not only inhabited by form but by spirit. He makes it clear that his life is not his own, it is given over to the muse who speaks through him.

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BEACHHEAD POLL


 What should be done with the Venice Circle?

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An RV Fairytale


  By Erica Snowlake
Against my friend’s better judgment, I don't drive, have never owned and am loathe to even entering nasty, metal, polluting obsessions in which one miraculously floats while seated above asphalted earth at high speeds weaving humanity's frenzied chaos group mind death wish, blithely deluded about the importance of getting somewhere, no thank-you, I AM honing my skills for a spaceship and a road with no lines, i.e. a garden, nevertheless, I recently accepted a gift, a godsend I thought at the time, the temporary loan of a 1985 Chevy truck/camper.

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Poetry


•  Rise Venice Rise - Jim Smith
• Auction - Sherman Pearl
• Just once - Lynne Bronstein
• The Sky - Hillary Kaye
• reflection - D.T. Jenkins

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